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There are some slight concerns about Harry Kane‘s (£11.1m) positioning in this afternoon’s match between Spurs and Newcastle.

The centre-forward naturally keeps his place in the side but shares the team-sheet with both Lucas Moura (£7.5m) and Son Heung-min (£9.5m).

Crucially, Christian Eriksen (£8.9m) finds himself on the bench once again, which could require Kane to drop deep to provide creativity for Moura and Son.

Spurs did not look in particularly good shape for the first hour of their Gameweek 1 hosting of Aston Villa, when Eriksen was on the bench.

It was only after he took to the field that Mauricio Pochettino’s men really got into their attacking stride.

It will, therefore, be of great interest to Fantasy managers how Kane, Moura and Son line-up against Newcastle.

Elsewhere in the Spurs side, Kyle Walker-Peters (£5.0m) continues his spell at right-back while Jan Vertonghen (£5.3m) makes it onto the bench but is still waiting for his first Premier League minutes of the season.

Opponents Newcastle line-up as expected, in a 5-3-2 formation, which continues to feature FPL midfielder Miguel Almirón (£6.0m) as a centre-forward.

Meanwhile, Wolves host Burnley in the other 4:30pm kick-off, with the benching of Leander Dendoncker (£4.5m) the biggest news.

After starting both league matches for Wolves so far this season, he has been replaced in the starting line-up by Morgan Gibbs-White (£5.0m).

That marks the only change from the side that drew with Manchester United, Matt Doherty (£6.0m) back at right wing-back after missing out against Torino midweek.

Hoping to crash another party away from home is Ashley Barnes (£6.6m) who came into Gameweek 3 behind only Teemu Pukki (£6.9m) and Raheem Sterling (£12.2m) for shots in the box.

Spurs XI: Lloris; Rose, D Sánchez, Alderweireld, Walker-Peters; Sissoko, Winks; Moura, Son, Lamela; Kane.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka; Ritchie, Dummett, Lascelles, Schär, Krafth; Saint-Maximin, S Longstaff, Hayden; Almirón, Joelinton.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Boly, Coady, Bennett; Jonny, Neves, Gibbs-White, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez.

Burnley XI: Pope; Pieters, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Gudmundsson; Barnes, Wood.

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  1. Nice to Finally Michu
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Bringing in Robbo after he drops in price this week could be a master stroke

    1. Budweiser
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Not really TAA is still better

      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Both!

    2. Ambrosiana Inter
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Why for the 0.01 bargain?

      1. Typo
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        0.1

  2. KOKAK
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Look at Spurs leading 1-0 and has no urgency of scoring another! 😀

    1. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Err

    2. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Don’t tell him

    3. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Ok

  3. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Pope up to 2 baps lol

    1. MTPockets
      6 years, 10 months ago

      From 2 saves?

      1. La Roja
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Yep

    2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Boom love it

    3. MagicMessi
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Pope is a beast lol

    4. CostaCoffee
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      And I was chuffed after playing Heaton over him on Friday night. Set and forget Pope really is the way to go

  4. Guy Demel
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Surely that was a foul

  5. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    2nd SAVE

    HOLDDDD

  6. Nice to Finally Michu
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Ah yes Ben Davies to supply the attacking oomph they need

  7. Rust Cohle
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    COYM!!!

    1. *sigh*
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      HwTL!

  8. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    HOOOOOLD TOON

  9. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    That touch by kane...

    1. MagicMessi
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      No Kane no pain

  10. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Pope pen save Jota rebound goal would be beautiful

  11. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane is a joke compared to salah sterling aguero

    1. Guy Demel
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      He'll get a goal you watch

    2. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      He's very poor. Who is he?

      1. fantasyfog
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        rubbish, feel sorry for anyone who took -8 to get him in AND captained him.....

        1. GreennRed
          • 14 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          I capyltained him, gone off form a bit. Still a class act, will bounce back. Happy for Bruce, a lot of rubbish posted about him here.

  12. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Another Sunday evening ruined by FPL and VAR

  13. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane to Kun, no harm done

  14. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    3rd Pope save would be worth 2 points If I'm right

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      He has 0 saves no?

      1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        2 now haha

  15. FPL Daniel
    • 17 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Come oooonnn Wolves

  16. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Spurs more interested in a penalty than scoring in open play.

  17. Tsparkes10
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane, Robinson to KDB, Pukki sound

  18. Feloh
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    top 10k avg??

    1. Johnny Drama
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      o/

  19. SHOOTER MCGINN
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane has been bad, but I don't really blame the guy. He's stayed up front the whole game and hasn't had any service. Shocking team performance.

    1. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      A top class holding mid like him needs to track back to the touch line more frequently

    2. Marvin.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yep. He's an old fashioned CF. People on here don't seem to understand that.

      1. SHOOTER MCGINN
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        The biggest disappointment was the chance he got at the end but missed the ball. That's where I'd expect him to prove his worth.

    3. CostaCoffee
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Been poor the first too games too. Wasn’t great last season either but the performances were masked by his goal tally. Not the complete player he was like on 16/17 imo

      1. SHOOTER MCGINN
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Hard to disagree, but always expect him to do 'something'. Guess you can't rely on that in the same way as Salah/Sterling et al in the premium bracket.

    4. Make FPL Casual Again
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Could have had an assist and penalty on another day...

      Decent call having him for this fixture, if no hits, or major changes to get him in....

      Can easily switch / downgrade..

      No Eriksen was main problem today...

      KDB only got 5 pts today, lets not forget

      1. SHOOTER MCGINN
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Very true. Fine margins of football and FPL. I'll probably just keep him for the Arsenal game and WC as planned for the international break. Pretty miserable week of football tho.

  20. Das Boot
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Yes I have 3 Spurs in my team and yes I am bitter atm, Now I have cleared that up. Pochetino. you are an arsse

  21. FPL Daniel
    • 17 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Absolutely hate for going Ryan instead of the fpl legend Pope

  22. FIRMINOLOOKGOAL
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Jota out for -4 to:

    1. Barnes
    2. Haller
    3. Tammy
    4. Wesley

    1. Cookie Kid
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Barnes or Haller

    2. The Man Pastore
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      2

  23. Ha.
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane > Aguero

    No regrats

  24. The Man Pastore
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Is Laporte worth 0.5m more than Walker?

    1. Buck The Trent
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yeah

  25. EMBOLOFAN
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    who’s old enough to remember kane at home to cardiff last year?

  26. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    I hate you, (K)ane

  27. Typo
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Safe to say I will not own Kane this season.

  28. sminkypinky
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Dubravka has been solid for the very few occasions he's had to do something.

  29. jdp219
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Someone want to take over my team?

    1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      No

    2. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Me 🙂
      Good chance it's better than mine.

  30. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Blew them up, refs!